Bad Movies on TCM today ... 1-9-2007

[CheezeFlixz]

All times CST ... sorry I'm posting this late I just remembered!!!

7:45am    [Horror/Science-Fiction]      I Walked With A Zombie (1943) 
A nurse in the Caribbean resorts to voodoo to cure her patient, even though she's in love with the woman's husband.
Cast: Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. BW-69 mins, TV-PG       
9:00am    [Horror/Science-Fiction]    White Zombie (1932)
A zombie master menaces newlyweds on a Haitian plantation.
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, John Harron. Dir: Victor Halperin. BW-69 mins, TV-PG          
10:15am    [Horror/Science-Fiction]    Die, Monster, Die ! (1965)
On a trip to meet his girlfriend's family, a young man uncovers deadly secrets.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson. Dir: Daniel Haller. C-80 mins    [Letterbox]       
11:45am    [Horror/Science-Fiction]    Monster that Challenged the World, The (1957)
An earthquake unleashes a horde of giant prehistoric monsters.
Cast: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conreid. Dir: Arnold Laven. BW-83 mins, TV-PG          
1:15pm    [Horror/Science-Fiction]    Ghost Ship, The (1943)
A young innocent signs on with a ship whose captain is going mad.
Cast: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett. Dir: Mark Robson. BW-69 mins, TV-PG          
2:30pm    [Horror/Science-Fiction]    13 Ghosts (1960)
A family inherits a house haunted by 13 ghosts and a living killer.
Cast: Charles Herbert, Rosemary DeCamp, Marin Milner. Dir: William Castle. C-85 mins    [Letterbox]       
4:00pm    [Horror/Science-Fiction]    Mark Of The Vampire (1935)
Vampires seem to be connected to an unsolved murder.
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-60 mins, TV-PG       [Close Captioned]    
5:15pm    [Horror/Science-Fiction]    Return of the Vampire, The (1944)
A vampire terrorizes a British family during World War II.
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch. Dir: Lew Landers. BW-69 mins, TV-PG          
6:30pm    [Documentary]    MGM Parade Show #26 (1955)
Eleanor Powell performs in a clip from "Broadway Melody"; Spencer Tracy performs in a clip from "Captains Courageous." Hosted by George Murphy.
BW-25 mins, TV-G

[Andrew]

Every classic bad movie lover should catch The Monster that Challenged the World.  It is worth its weight in gold just for the scene at the end where Twillinger is trying to stop the monster snail from eating the single mother and her kid.  Looking behind him, he stares right at the huge red fire ax.  However, when he runs to it, he ignores the ax and grabs a fire extinguisher!  That part still makes me giggle.

[CheezeFlixz]

Since I'm working from home today I guess I'll be popping in a DVD to record  The Monster that Challenged the World! I just have to see a killer snail. Makes me wonder what animal has not been turned into a monster yet?

[Gerry]

The monster in MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD is one of the best of the 50s.  Very scary.  That scene at the end with the mother and daughter is intense!  Notice the similarities between this and JAWS with the swimmers at the beginning.

[Ken Begg]

Wow.  I'm being pedantic, but with the possible exception of Die, Monster, Die!, none of those films are remotely bad.  At least a couple of them are downright classics, and most of the others (including Monster that Challanged the World) are well in the upper tier.

[Andrew]

Ken, I think it was because many of us like old horror and science fiction."  "13 Ghosts" is a campy flick.  I still remember it making my blood run cold as a child.  I mean the end, when the ghosts all hold the one guy under the canopy bed that smothers people.

[CheezeFlixz]

Wow.  I'm being pedantic, but with the possible exception of Die, Monster, Die!, none of those films are remotely bad.  At least a couple of them are downright classics, and most of the others (including Monster that Challanged the World) are well in the upper tier.

I didn't mean bad as in Howard the Duck bad, but as Andrew pointed out campy bad. There where b-movies of there day if I recall correctly, not A movie headlines. I recorded them and hadn't had time to watch them all, but I caught enough of them to know I will enjoy seeing them. I went ahead and ordered copy of "13 Ghosts" for what little I saw of it it looked like a keeper. The spirit lion with the headless trainer, and the 'I see dead people' glasses, gotta get a pair of those. The others I didn't catch enough of to make a call on I had seen most many years and 10,000 movies ago so I don't remember them that well. However after this weekend I should as I'll have time to watch them in full.

So yeah your being a little pedantic, but that's OK. I merely meant they where, shall one say economy films.